The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08

and they move into two rooms on the fourth
story of tenement house in back street.
When they are out at the elbows and knees,
the thought of your splendid robe in heaven
VIII not keep them warm. The minister
may preach splendid sermon over your
remains, and the quartette may sing like
four angels in the organ loft; but your
death will be a swindle. You had the
means TO provide for the comfort of your
household when you left it, and YOU wick
| edly neglected it. So" says some ono, II
| have more faith than you; believe whom
go out of this world, the Lord will provide
for them" Go 10 Blackwell's Island, go
through ell the poor houses of the coun-
try, and l will show you how often
God provides for the neglected children
of neglectful parents. That is He provides
for them through public charity. AS for
myself, | would rather have the Lord pro-
vide for my family in "A private home, and
through my own industry, and paternal,
and coniugal faithfulness. But, says some
man: II mean i'll the next ten or twenty
years to make great fortune, and so
shall leave my family, when go out of this
world, very comfortable" How do you
know You are going to live ten or twenty
years: If we could look up the highway of
the future, we would see it crossed by pneu-
monias and pleurisies, and consumptions,
and colliding rail trains and runaway
horses, and breaking bridges, and funeral
professions. Are you SO certain you are
going to live ten or twenty years you can
warrant your household any comfort after
you go away from thems Beside that, the
vast majority of men die poor! Two,
only, out of hundred sue
ceed in business. Are you very
certain you are going To be one of the two!
Rich one day, poor the next. A man in
New York got two millions of dollars, and
the money turned his brain, and he died in
the lunatic asylum. All his property was
left with the business firm, and they
swamped it, and then the family of the in
sane man were left without dollar In
eighteen months the prosperity, the in
sanity, the insolvency and the complete
domestic ruin. Beside that, there are men
who die solvent, who are insolvent before
they get under the ground, or before their
estate IS settled up. How soon the auc-
tioneer's mallet can knock the life out of an
estate. A man thinks the property is worth
fifteen thousand dollars: under a forced sale
it brings seven thousand dollars. The bust
ness man takes advantage of the crisis
and he compels the widow of his
deceased partner TO sell out to him
at ruinous price, or lose all. The
stock was supposed to be very valuable, but
it has been so "wateredn that when the
executor tries to sell it he is laughed out of
Wall street, or the administrator is ordered
by the surrogate to wind up the whole
affair. The estate was supposed at the mans
death TO be worth $50, 900, but after the in
debtedness had been met, and the bills of
the doctor, and the undertaken, and the
tombstone-cutter have been paid there is
nothing left. That means the children are
to come home from school and go to work.
That means the complete hardship of the
wife. turned out with nothing but a needle
TO fight the great battle of the world Tear
down the lambrequins, close the piano. rip
up the Administer, sell out the wardrobe,
and let the mother take a child in each
hand and trudge out into the desert of the
world. A life insurance would have hindered
all that
But says some one: 81 am man of small
means, and cant afford to pay the pre-
mium.n That is sometimes a lawful and a
genuine excuse, and there is no answer to it; (;
but in nine cases out of ten when a man
says, that he smokes up in cigars, and drinks
down i'll wine, and expends in luxuries
enough money to have paid the premium on
a life insurance policy which would have
kept his family from beggary when he is
dead. A man ought to put himself down on
the strictest economy until he can meet this
Christian necessity. You have no right
to the luxuries of life until you
have made such provision. ad-
mire what was said by Rev.
DIR. Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher. A
few years before his death he stood in pub
lie meeting and declared: 'When came to
Edinburgh, the people sometimes laughed at
my blue stockings, and at my cotton UNI
brella and they said looked like common
ploughman, and they derided me because |
lived in a house for which paid thirty-five
pounds rent year, and sometimes | walked
when | would have been very glad to have
n cab; but, gentlemen, did all that because
| wanted TO pay the premium on life in
surance that would keep my family com
Portable If should die" That | take to be
the right expression of an honest, intelligent,
Christian man.
The utter indifference of many people on
this important subject accounts for much
of the crime and the pauperism of this day
Who are these children sweeping the cross
ings with broken broom and begging of you
a penny as you go byl Who are these lost
souls gliding under the gaslight in thin
shawls! All, they are the victims Of want;
in many Of the cases the forecast of parents
and grandparents might have prohibited it,
God only knows how they struggled to do
right. They prayed until the tears froze on
their cheeks; they sewed on the sack until
the breaking of the day; but they could not
get enough money to pay the rent; they
could not get enough money TO decently
clothe themselves; and one day in that
wretched home, the angel of purity and the
angel of crime fought great fight between
the empty bread-tray and the fireless hearth,
and the black winged angel shrieked: AHA!
| have won the day" Says some man: 81
believe what you say; it is right and Chris
tan, and mean sometime TO attend 10 this
matter" Ny friend, You are going TO lose
the comfort OF your household in the same
way the sinner loses heaven, by procrastina-
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